I'm not sure how to figure out which patches are available anymore, as they're no longer in the mbsa cab for scanning, and WU no longer lists them. Given it's 5 Office product cycles ago, it might not be worth investigating too heavily anyway.

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I'm not sure how to figure out which patches are available anymore, as they're no longer in the mbsa cab for scanning, and WU no longer lists them. Given it's 5 Office product cycles ago, it might not be worth investigating too heavily anyway.

So it seems like an old "mbsa cab" might be usable. I do not have one, however.

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I am uncertain whether an update patch different than that for the operating system is needed for Outlook 2000 to properly manage time (many Time Zone/Daylight Savings Time changes have occurred since the release of Office 2000 Service Pack 3)

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All patches were detected with Office Update method at time, one day before EOL of the product, triple checked with WSUS Offline at the same time, two weeks earlier and one month later, again. Office 2000 Premium was fully fresh installed, Disc1 and Disc2 only, with all features running from hard disk, SR-1, then SP3 applied, on two different setups, XP and Vista.

These updates will work with ALL editions of Office 2000, but the above list may not be complete for the Developer Edition.

The list of patches is complete for Office 2000 Premium Edition AND/OR Professional Edition. The only difference between the two editions is FrontPage 2000, included in Premium Edition only. There is no update or any patch available for FrontPage 2000, after SP3. So, these patches complete cover both editions, Premium AND Professional and, of course, Standard Edition and Small Business Edition. For each edition, install only what you need in the list.

Note that you may need the original souce disks for some patches.

To NOT be prompted for the source disk(s), you must apply:

KB835220

after SP3, but before the rest of patches (01. to 17.)

All these updates can be found on MS site. Find, if possible, the “fullfill” files.

There are not others non-obsolete post SP3 updates available for Office 2000. There will be not future updates. Office 2000 life ended July 14, 2009 (with last patches released in June 2009). So, this is the final setup for Office 2000.

Note for Vista and Seven users:

Office 2000 will work on Vista and Seven very well, with these three workarounds:

1. To make Outlook working on Vista and Seven, copy wab32.dll and wab32res.dll from C:\Program Files\Common Files\System to C:\Windows\System32. Even so, Outlook does not remember the passwords; for this problem there is no workaround.

2. To make Office Assistant working on Vista and Seven, copy agentdpv.dll from C:\Windows\msagent to C:\Windows\System32.

3. To have acces at the old-type help files, you must download and install WinHlp32.exe for your OS, Vista or Seven, from MS site. The generic name is:

KB917607

but there are separate files for Vista or Seven, x86 or x64.

Regarding the Outlook 2000 properly managing time zones problem, you may read the documentation for “Time Zone Data Update Tool for Office Outlook 32-bit”, available for Outlook 2000 to 2010 versions, on MS site.

Note that there are some security risks in using Office 2000 with patches several years old. but for day-to-day, plain usage, it will work very well, especially if you do pay attention where you click.

There is a solution for the above problem, see next.

Note for all NT OSs users:

The "Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats" is working with Office 2000 and its components: Word, Excel and PowerPoint (SP3 required). If you'll install this pack, you'll be able to open AND save files in these new office formats: docx, xlsx, pptx etc AND receive future updates for this pack. So, you can download and install the Compatibility Pack and use the regular way to update or patch it, through WinUpdate. This way, the security risks shall be reduced. It is a good idea to download and install the "FileFormatConverters.exe" file published 1/6/2010 (38,808,920 bytes), it has SP2 for Office 2007 System included.

How it works:

To open these files (2007 format), just double click on them.

To save a file in Word, open or create a file, then just click Save As and pick the 2007 format OR right-click the file (do not open the file) and choose Save As from right click menu, then pick the 2007 format.

To save a file in Excel or PowerPoint there is one method only: right-click the file (do not open the file) and choose Save As from right click menu, then pick the 2007 format. You can not save an opened file with Save As, like in Word.

If the Powerpoint does not work, you have to apply:

KB2540162

You may want or not to update the entire 2007 Compatibility Pack setup, it's your choise, but the above KB is mandatory for this Compatibility Pack to save 2007 format files with PowerPoint 2000. To open 2007 format files with PowerPoint 2000, you do not need this update, but you need it if you want to save files as pptx or pptm.

This is a way to have an Office Suite, compatible with old and new file formats, working with XP, Vista and Seven and eligible for future updates (2007 file formats only). For Win '95, '98 (SE), ME, you must stay with the old doc-xml-ppt format; the patches for this situation are 01. to 17. only (see above).

Thank you Sceleron for providing the list of Office Update/WSUS Offline updates of what was offered prior to product End Of Life.

I do note for others in this thread that it appears that you provided a list for Office 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3; Office 2000 Premium and Office 2000 Developer editions include software that are not available with Office 2000 Professional (such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000). Your list does not include updates for the Office 2000 Premium or Office 2000 Developer ed (nor is it expected that it should)

The list is an excellent starting point for users of Office 2000 (especially Premium and Developer editions). Microsoft offer of updates generated by Office Update did not include all available updates. For example, the office updates that were not made available as Windows Installer Patch Files (.MSP files), were not included in the update list. Hotfix updates also would not have been included in the list.

Regarding the Outlook 2000 properly managing time zones problem, you may read the documentation for “Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook 32-bit”, available for Outlook 2000 to 2010 versions, on MS site.

For the United States of America/Canada Office users, applying the KB947700 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947700 ) update should be sufficient. There were changes in year 2010 for countries outside of United States and Canada (I forgot what they were), but they are not included with KB947700; KB947700 only has time updates through January 2008.

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I am intending to start a project that may benefit the users of these forums. The results are to be posted on these forums.

I intend to produce update lists and automating update integration and patching of the Office 2000 installation sources for different Office 2000 products.

have already completed my update lists for Microsoft Office 2000 Premium (this is the version that does not come updated to SR-1).

However, to do this correctly, I need to examine the different Office 2000 product installation files and media (or represented media). I have examined the retail version of Office 2000 Premium (the copy I have), but require discs or disc images of the following (in order of importance):

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 V2

Microsoft Project 2000

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium SR-1

Microsoft Office 2000 Developer (SR-1 or without SR-1)

I would prefer retail or volume license media or their disc images (serials or product keys are not necessary). Although OEM media might have an installer for an OEM version of Office 2000 or an Office 2000 application, the contents of the media might not be consistent for different media for what should be the same software product. and, wherefore, I have a bias (for the purposes of this project) against it.

I shall later (tomorrow or next week), start a new thread about this. In the meantime (or thereafter) I may be PMed regarding this (especially to those with discs of the listed software above).

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I do note for others in this thread that it appears that you provided a list for Office 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3; Office 2000 Premium and Office 2000 Developer editions include software that are not available with Office 2000 Professional (such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000). Your list does not include updates for the Office 2000 Premium or Office 2000 Developer ed (nor is it expected that it should)

- The list of patches is for Office 2000 Premium Edition AND/OR Professional Edition. The only difference between the two editions is FrontPage 2000 (inluded in Premium Edition only, if we talk about Disc1 and Disc2 of Premium Edition). Well, for FrontPage 2000 there is no update or any patch available, after SP3. So, the list of patches completely cover both editions, Premium and Professional (and, of course, Standard Edition and Small Business Edition). The Developer Edition is another story.

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I have uploaded my own collection of Office 2000 post SP3 hotfixes which includes all non-security hotfixes by request (HBR). It includes security updates in the root of the folder, and other stuff (non-security hotfixes, CD3 updates in other folders). I believe it will update everyone's Office 2000 to newest file version builds. I also have newest HBR for Office XP post SP3 and Office 97 post SP2 if anyone wants.